Popular Culture

A raw collection of photos and stories spotlighting the artistic process and dangerous adventures of a Chicago graffiti artist as he creates unspon...

This innovative volume offers fresh perspectives and directions on the intersection of Hispanic and Jewish studies. It shows how 'Jewishness' has p...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

Ever since the dawn of the Hollywood star system in the early 1920s, consumers have been fascinated by film stars and other celebrities and their s...

This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal epist...

This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imaginations potential for...

Over recent decades South Koreas vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this ...

This volume explores and clarifies the complex intersection of race and media in the contemporary United States. Due to the changing dynamics of ho...

Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artist...

This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal...

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studi...

Concentrating primarily on contemporary depictions of Batman in the comic books, this book analyzes why Batman is so immensely popular right now in...

Before the advent of the teenager in the 1940s and the teenpic in the 1950s, The Freshman (Taylor and Newmeyer, 1925) represented 1920s college you...

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman...

Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudevill...

This book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and Otherness....

The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japane...

From open source cultures, piracy, to amateur media and on-demand labour, informal media activities are vibrant in circuits of cultural production,...

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the digital native who ac...

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schieles work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artists visual b...

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and gr...

Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

This volume focuses on popular film, television, and online representations of contested corporealities and contributes to visual culture studies, ...